Xenia melted

[Airphotog]

I bought a Xenia at the frag swap and it has melted. Now there are a few polyps on the rock that it was on. Interesting little corals.

 

[NWDiver]

They sometimes do that even in a very well established tank in which they have grown for years. I've never read a reasonable explanation as to the cause.

 

[Somethings Fishy]

speaking of xenia my snails somehow bulldozed my setosa frag off the rock and onto my xenia resulting in it getting burned, i am pissed, i know this is unrelated but i thought id share my pain anyway.

 

[NWDiver]

Sorry to hear that! Is the setosa recovering?

 

[Somethings Fishy]

ya.. it got burned but i am sure it will make it, i can tell its somewhat ok due to the micro polyps are open, it happened this morning so time will tell. it just takes so long to grow!

 

[flatteringchild]

Are you talking about the pale pink pulser Xenia? I have had great luck with them... then this morning the water is cloudy - could not find anything dead anywhere - had to use my lunch hour to take water out and replace with fresh. They are barely pulsing, but hopefully they will come back.

Love those pulsers!!!

 

[NWDiver]

They are really cool, but they can grow like weeds!

 

[Airphotog]

Here is a pic.

 

[y2says]

They look like starburst.

 

[ac7av]

That doesn’t look like xenia

 

[DTECH07]

Hey Airphotog i have a small frag of Pulsing Xenia that you can have if you want them. There the only thing that survived when my tank crashed and they love to pulse. Let me know.

Dtech07

 

[user 2204]

Those aren't Xenia of any type that I've had. I currently have 6-7 different strains of Xenia in a Xenia Species dominate tank. Those are definatley a type of Star Polyp or Starburst Polyp (Briareum sp.) .

 

[DTECH07]

I agree they look like Stars Polyps did look more like this?

 

[DTECH07]

Here is the Mother Colony (Pulsing Xenia) and the smaller rock is the frag you can have and give my Stars a 2months and i'll break you off a piece you have also. Let me know

Dtech07

 

[Airphotog]

That is strange. There was nothing on the rock before I put the Xenia on it. I probably just did not see them.

 

[Holygral]

Xenia can and will grow like like weeds, but they can also die off very quickly for no apparent reason. Tried them long time ago and they just died off, tried again a year later and was giving them away for years, they were growing everywhere. Then they just started melting off, within 2 months they were all gone. Year later I just boughtba small plug of them and they are growing like a weed again. Same tank, no changes or additions.

 

[Scampy]

I bought some xenia a couple years ago that did not pulse. A year later I bought a pulsing xenia and put it next to the first one and a month later the first one started pulsing. Figure that one out. The first one I got split a bunch of times and has moved all around the tank. Where they are from the same colony you would think they would all live or die. But some patches wither away while others thrive and I have no explanation why. The pulsing variety is really cool to watch. I'll see if I can dig up a desent video of it.
http://youtu.be/KHIHLoGRIlg

 

[Airphotog]

Yes I have some of those.

I agree they look like Stars Polyps did look more like this?